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Artificial Intelligence?

TLDR: AI has very narrow use cases yet its shoved everywhere it should not be thus making issues.

The actual writing

Okay if you see the url of the page being /opinions/artificial_stupidity/ you can tell I have a large distain for "AI"

"AI" is now a buzzword with many people use for many things but here it will be used to refer to LLMs like ChatGPT and genAI such as Stable Diffusion and not to classical AI models for things like text classification image recognition and things that have actual use cases, and they are for the most part being used properly.

AI these days has constantly been shoved into every single part of everyone’s life just for people to justify dumping all this money into it.

Microsoft and GitHub have recently been going all in on AI and been causing a lot of shit. Microsoft meme about them using AI for 30% of code and then a ton of issues in windows

There have also been numerous reports of LLMs deleting peoples databases and even entire secondary drives. It's an entire can of worms you don’t want to mess with

I will admit opening up a random free online AI model to freeload off of it to throw some stupid questions to make boilerplate and ask it to make a generic function or two for you to modify and having it check over a few bits for mistakes as it can spot them well but not fix them.

As always verify everything it outputs and don’t use it for anything critical.

AI "art" is also just a complete waste of everything.

  • It's low effort
  • It can look bad in a lot of cases
  • It takes from real artists
  • You can do it yourself in much less time and with a better result and learn new skills

Also, many of the people I have met who have been fanatical about AI have been straight up crazy

If I had a nickel for every time somebody joined a server who trained an AI to talk like them and for them, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

One of those people joined a server filled with human artists and this person tells them that they are going to be replaced and they should after struggling to have a conversation with this person because they weren’t actually there.